Button loop



June 10, 1930. I J. H. DQMKEE 1,762,262

BUTTON LOOP Filed Feb. 15, 1929 1W JEN-1N H. DDMKEE ATTy Patented Ju e 10, 1930 STATES m FFIC JOHN H. DOMKEE, or wnsr HAVEN, oomvncirrcn'r, ejssrenoaro THE WIRE novEri'rY MANUFACTURINGGQ, or wns'r NECTIGUT HAVEN, con vncrronr, A CORPORATION or oo1v- BUTTON oo;

Application filed February 15, 1929. Serial No) 340,246,

The invention relates to improvement in button loops particularly adapted for use on garment straps, the loop being specially adapted to be suspended at the end of a strap inreadiness to be clipped over a button the shank of which may be urged therefrom into a smaller retaining loop from which it cannot be unintentionally withdrawn, and the objects of the invention are to provide from a single piece of wire integral suspension, receiving, and retaining, loop portions of a button loop; and to provide as a part of such construction a button retaining loop portion having overlapping curved terminals one of which is of slot formation to receive the other terminal. l/Vith these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the Within disclosures the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawing but readily admits of certain modificationswithin the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

Thefollowing is thedescription of an embodiment of the invention reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is a face view of the button loop; the Figure 2 is a bottom view illustrating one terminal of the retaining loop within the slot formationof the other terminal; and the Figure 3 is a side elevation illustrating a distorted portion exposing the slot formed terminal. a

Referring more particularly to the drawing in which similar numbers refer tosimilar parts, the device comprises a single piece of resilient wire of which the lniddle portion is formed to provide the suspensionloop lby which the device may be suspended from a strap (not illustrated) and the two remaining end portions formed to provide between them the button receivingloop 2 having the contracted throat 3 and the button retaining loop 4, as illustrated by the Figure 1, the wire extremities 5 and 6 overlapping one another in forming the circular loop 4. These overlappingcurvedextremities 5 and 6 are reduced in lateral thickness to permit the two curved extremities to lie together within the a plane of the loop to accommodate throughout same plane as that of the other loops, the extremity 6, thus reduced in thickness, being suflicient length to provide the off-set 7 w thin theloop i and also the second branch 8 resulting in a slot formation of the curved extremity 6, which branch is formed by turning back the metal upon itself at the off-set 7 to follow the form of the curved extremity 6 as a part of the loop 4, but in spaced relation thereto and therefore lying outside of the plane of the loop to provide a slot formed terminal adapted to receivethe curved extremity 5 therebetween, as illustrated by the Figure 2, the Figure illustrating the open spaced relation of the branch 8 to the curved extremity 6 and connected by the off-set 7,

the extremity 5 being sprung outof alignment with the slot formation and bent to one a side to expose to view the separate terminals. It will be apparent that the curved extremity 5 within the slot formation of the extremity 6 is free to operate therein in the plane of the loop as the shank of a button may be urged through the throat 3 into or from the re taining loop 4, but that the extremity 5 is firmly held by the slot formation against any spreading movement in a right angle direction to that of its intended operation.

What I claim is: e l

1. A button loop comprising a pair of spring armsforming a contracted portion near one end of the loop, the arms being divergent beyond the contracted portion and thenbeing inwardly bent to form a button retaining loop, one of the arms being provoided with a curved elongated slot formation at its extremity and within the plane of the loop to accommodate therein throughout its length the curvedextremity ofthe other arm for relative movement upon the expansion of the contracted portion.

2. A button loop comprising a pair of p spring arms forming a contracted portion nearone end of the loop, the arms being d1- vergent beyondthe contracted portion and then being bent inwardly to forma button retaining loop, the freeextremities of the arms overlapping and one of the extremities being oti'set and turned back upon itself to provide an elongated slot formation in the gel its length the other extremity for relative movement therein upon the expansion of the contracted portion.

' 3. A butt0n,.loop formed of a single piece 7 of resilient Wire of Which a middle portion is bent to form a suspension loop and the free ends cooperate to form a button. receiving loop having a contracted throat communicating With a button retaining loop formed by curved; overlapping, and reduced extremities; one curved extremity being off-set into the retaining loop and turned back upon itself to provide a curved elongated slot forma tion in the plane of the loop to accommodate throughout its length the other curved extremity for relative movement therein upon the expansion of the throat portion,

JOHN H. DOMKEE. 

